Appointments

2022.09 - Present: Associate Professor at Sogang University, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

                                      (Seoul, Korea)

2014.09 - 2022.08: Principal Researcher at KRICT (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology)

                                        , Research Center for Bio-based Chemistry (Daejeon, Korea)

2020.07 - 2022.08: Affiliate Faculty at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology)

                                         ,  Div. of Environmental Science & Engineering (Pohang, Korea)

2016.03 - 2022.08: Associate Professor at UST (University of Science and Technology)

                                        , Dept. of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering (Daejeon, Korea)

2012.08 - 2014.08: Researcher at SK Innovation Corp., Chemical R&BD Center (Daejeon, Korea)

Education

2008.09 - 2012.08: Ph.D. in Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, Korea) 

                                         Advisor: Prof. Sang Youl Kim

2007.02 - 2008.08: M.S. in Chemistry, KAIST; Advisor: Prof. Sang Youl Kim

2003.03 - 2007.02: B.S. in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, KAIST (minor in Business Economics Program)

Professional Activities

• The member of Academy and Education, The polymer Society of Korea (2024)

한국고분자학회 학술위원회 위원: 

• General secretary, The polymer Society of Korea: Eco Materials Division (2023-2024)

한국고분자학회 에코소재 분과 임원진: 

• Organizing secretary, Korean Chemical Society: Polymer Chemistry Division (2022)

대한화학회 고분자화학분과회 임원진 (기획간사): http://new.kcsnet.or.kr/branch_polymer_member

• Organizing committee, Global ESG Forum (Waste: Plastic) parallel with Nature Forum (2022)

2022 글로벌 ESG 포럼, 폐기물: 플라스틱, 조직위원: https://www.globalesgforum.org/ko/esg_guest_04.asp

• Secretariat, POLYCONDENSATION 2022 (2022)

• Special Issue Editor in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2021~2022): Special Issue "Self-Healing Polymers and Composites"

• Program Committee [Polymers and Environment], IUPAC-MACRO2020+ (2021)

• Reviewer Community Member, Green Chemistry, and other RSC journals (2021~)

• Reviewer Board Member, Nanomaterials (2020~)

• Chief-program organizer of Global Symposium on Bio-based Polymeric Materials (KRICT) (2018~2022)

• Co-organizer of 2018 Fall Meeting of The Polymer Society of Korea (2018)

• Member, Polymer Society of Korea

• Member, Korean Chemical Society

• Member, The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers

Honors & Awards

• The Polymer Science Advancement Award (고분자학술진보상) in Fall meeting of the Polymer Society of Korea (2024)

• Keynote presentation in INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DYNAMIC POLYMER NETWORKS, Changchun, China (2024)

• The 1st EYSA·Ecopro Young Scientist Awards-Environment division (에코프로 젊은 과학자상-환경부문) (2023)

• TCI-Emerging scholar award (신진학술상) in Fall meeting of Korean Chemical Society (Polymer Chemistry Division) (2023)

• The Best 100 Technologies among National R&D Projects by Ministry of Science and ICT of 2021 (2021)

      - 자가치유 물질기반 온도변화 감지필름 제조기술 (오동엽, 황성연, 박제영 외)

• The Best 100 Technologies among National R&D Projects by Ministry of Science and ICT of 2020 (2020)

- 비닐봉투용 고강도 생분해성 플라스틱 제조 기술개발 (황성연, 박제영, 오동엽 외)

•  KRICT Team-Grand Prize of 2020, KRICT (2020)

• Selected as a Major National R&D Achievement Reported to “Mr. President”: High-performance bioplastics (2019)   

•  Ulsan Metropolitan Award in Science Technology and Industrial Development of 2019 (2019)

•  Excellence Staff Award of 2018, KRICT (2018)

•  KRICT Innovation Team Award of 2017, KRICT (2017)